Chapter 467 Conservative and Cautious

Los Angeles, in front of the ABC TV station in Burbank, Matt Damon was surrounded by countless fans as soon as he got out of the car.

"Bourne!"

"Bourne is here!"

Autographed books appeared near Matt Damon one by one. Although the bodyguards tried their best to stop them, many people handed the signed books to Matt Damon.

"Bourne!" A female fan was almost fanatical: "Give us an autograph!"

Matt Damon took the signature pen and signed his name on her notebook. The female fan glanced at it, seemed very dissatisfied, and said loudly: "Bourne! Sign Bourne's name again!"

Hearing this, Matt Damon couldn't help being a little embarrassed, but he has a good personality and knows that no matter what happens, he can't argue with his die-hard fans, so he wrote "Jason Burr En" name.

Matt Damon signed autographs for several more fans, and with the help of bodyguards, he slowly walked out of the crowd and entered the ABC TV station.

The agent was already waiting here, and hurriedly came forward and said, "Matt, you are the hottest star this month."

Even Keanu Reeves, who was released with "The Matrix 2", has less exposure than Matt Damon.

Hearing what the agent said, Matt Damon smiled and said: "This is not entirely a good thing."

The manager was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Matt Damon lowered his voice and said, "I signed seven names just now, and three of them asked me to sign the name Jason Bourne."

The manager's expression gradually became serious: "Has it reached this point?"

Matt Damon said: "Am I going to be solidified by the image of Jason Bourne?"

"We need to pay attention." The manager accompanied Matt Damon into the TV station, and said as he walked, "Matt, I suggest you finish filming the third part and suspend the role of Jason Bourne."

The agent is very smart, and Matt Damon is not an idiot who only looks at immediate interests, saying: "After the third film is finished, I will not continue to play Jason Bourne."

"Your play and image are very broad." The agent agreed: "You can't be limited to one role.

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As soon as he finished speaking, he saw George Clint from Sand Sea Entertainment walking towards him, and hurriedly greeted him, "Hi, George, are you here in person?"

Matt Damon participated in the recording of the program of ABC TV station. Although there is an element of promotion for "Bourne Shadow 2", but the executive officer of Sandsea Entertainment does not need to come in person, right?

George Clint greeted Matt Damon first, and then said to his agent: "The company has business with ABC TV on drama series."

The agent was well informed and asked, "The second season of "Grey's Anatomy"?"

George Clint nodded slightly: "The second season has already started filming, and the autumn file will be broadcast, but I am here this time mainly to talk about the broadcast of the animated series."

"Animated episodes?" The manager was a little surprised.

"Peppa Pig." George Clint said simply: "The one that won the best animated short film at the Oscars, we made it into an animated series and prepared to broadcast it on ABC."

The manager was a little amazed: "Sand Sea Entertainment has more and more businesses."

George Clint smiled confidently and said, "There will be more in the future. "Peppa Pig" is just the beginning."

After chatting for a while, George Clint, who had other things to do, left here.

Matt Damon looked over there and said: "Keep a good relationship with Relativity Entertainment, even if they don't cooperate with "Bourne Shadow", they still have other film projects."

The agent said solemnly: "I understand."

George Grint has just negotiated the airing of "Peppa Pig" with ABC TV station.

Although it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, which also allowed this animated series to enter the attention of various TV stations, Shahai Entertainment’s animation work has not yet had any commercially successful animation production. "Peppa Pig" No. The premiere authorization for one season is only a symbolic one dollar.

Of course, this ten thousand dollars is only the copyright fee for the first broadcast, and does not involve any other copyrights, especially peripherals.

George Clint is very clear that if this kind of animation series is broadcast only by TV stations, it will almost lose money. The real profit lies in the various peripherals.

For example, “Transformers” and “Special Department”, which Shahai Entertainment has already obtained the film and television adaptation rights for, and related animation series produced by Hasbro, were paid to be broadcast by TV stations in the early days, and the cost recovery and profit depended entirely on toys and other peripherals. .

It is no exaggeration to say that the animated series that has been filmed for multiple seasons is nothing but a promotional video for toys.

The situation of "Peppa Pig" is different from that of "Transformers", but it is also somewhat similar.

The most important role of the first season is publicity and awareness.

George Clint knew that ABC TV was not the best platform, and the most suitable platform for super childish cartoons like "Peppa Pig" should be the Disney Children's Channel.

But it is basically impossible to cooperate with Disney Children's Channel. On the one hand, Disney Children's Channel basically only broadcasts works produced by Disney.

On the other hand, if foreign works want to be broadcast on the Disney Children's Channel, they must sell the copyright to Disney.

This is unacceptable to both the theory of relativity and Shahai Entertainment.

Back at Sandsea Entertainment, George Clint went directly to the animation studio, chatted with the person in charge, Chris Leonard, about the work in the animation business, and then checked the progress of new animation works.

With ideas and material provided by Ronan, the animation studio is working on a short film called Minions.

According to the plan, after the short film of "Minions" is finally teamed up, the animation studio will start the production of the first animated feature film, which is also the animated film "Despicable Me" featuring the Minions.

Originally, George Clint was still a little worried about budget issues. If, like Pixar Studios, an animated feature film requires a budget of 150 million US dollars, the risk may be too great.

After all, this is the studio's first animated feature film, and before considering success, the risks and consequences of failure must first be considered.

But the plan submitted by the animation studio and Chris Leonard made George Clint a little relieved. The animation studio only needs a budget of 60 million US dollars to complete "Despicable Me".

In this way, the risk is immediately reduced by more than half.

There is no need to worry about funding issues. The Pacific Film Foundation has a long-term cooperation with Shahai Entertainment. It is not an exaggeration to say that they wear a pair of pants.

Scott Swift of the Pacific Film Foundation just met with him last week. The second phase of financing from South Korea and island countries will be in place soon. It is said that there will be no less than 100 million euros in Germany this year. For investment, several foundations in India will also have financing in place one after another.

In addition, Scott Swift has been doing Jewish work, and negotiations with some investment institutions have come to an end. It won't take long for the Pacific Film Foundation to obtain investment from Jews.

If there is no problem with financing, there is no need to worry about the production budget, so that the various film projects of Shahai Entertainment can be carried out smoothly.

After finishing the work at hand in the afternoon, George Clint met with CAA's Brian Lord in the evening. Sandhai Entertainment is preparing a new film with Will Smith. According to the legendary stockbroker, the real American "When Happiness Comes Knocking" adapted from Chris Gardner's experience.

At the beginning, Brian Lord wanted to promote the cooperation between Spielberg, CAA's number one director client, and Relativity Entertainment, but both parties rejected it at the same time.

CAA then recommended an Italian director named Gabriel Muccino, who has won the Audience Choice Award at the Sun Denis Film Festival. He is a director signed by the International Department of CAA last year. He is very capable in directing feature films.

George Clint came over and discussed the possibility of Gabriel Muccino directing with Brian Lord.

The Italian director has directed four feature films before, so he is quite experienced, so he is considered a good candidate.

In addition, George Clint also needs to synthesize Will Smith's opinion.

Not only will the superstar Will Smith serve as a producer, but also Will Smith's vision of film selection and director, judging from the success in recent years, it seems to be good.

The conversation with Brian Lord went very smoothly, and Will Smith was routinely notified the next day, and he also dealt with the work of many sequel film projects that were either in preparation or had already started shooting.

This year, Sandsea Entertainment has four or five sequels filmed and produced. George Clint has always followed Ronan's idea that sequels must be properly innovated on the basis of following the successful model.

The company's successive succession of sequel films has proved this correctness time and time again.

As for the sequel taking huge risks to overthrow the successful model of the previous one and fully innovate? Only a fool would do that.

The previous movie managed to attract a group of audiences, adding a lot of new content hastily, simply not taking the inherent fans seriously.

Rather than making subversive innovations in the sequel, it is better to shoot a new movie directly with innovative content.

George Clint is the operator of Sandsea Entertainment and must guarantee the company's performance.

Not to mention, the Paul Greengrass he knows is actually a subversive director who pays great attention to innovation, but "The Bourne 2" follows the successful model of "The Bourne 1", even though Ronan gave him great support. Trust, let him lead the filming and production of the sequel, Paul Greengrass is still very conservative and cautious in creation.

Facts have proved that Paul - Greenglass's conservative is successful.

"Bourne Shadow 2" has maintained a relatively stable box office trend since its release. Just entered June, the North American box office has reached 231.2 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is close to 350 million U.S. dollars.

Thinking of this, George Clint got a call, and the team that went to register with the Copyright Office encountered an unexpected situation.